Re: [TRUNCATED MESSAGE 2408 171455] Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>    > on the first-century shrine of the Augustales at Herculaneum, which reads:
>
> What do those long vertical bars mean?

The long vertical bars in words like "FꟾLIꟾ" are accented capital "I" letters, 
transcribed as U+A7FE LATIN EPIGRAPHIC LETTER I LONGA.  The accent indicates a 
long "I".  Common practice was to put an apex (the accent mark) over long 
vowels, e.g., "V́" was an accented "V" (the modern "U").  However, "I" was an 
exception: instead of putting an apex over an "I", people just wrote a taller "I".